Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-04
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. a. 1887.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. o. 1887.
The temperance question like Banquo's
ghost will not down. It was up in the Sen
ate to-day in the shape of bill allowing
druggists to sell liquor on prescriptions of
physicians. The temperance people OPP
posed this on the ground that it would be
abused and turn the drug stores into sa
looms. but the bill was recommended to
pass. In the House three temperance bills
had been made a special order One of
them provides fines and penalties for VIC
iation of the new high license law. That
law as it stands is an entire dead letter for
lack of any penalty. 1t was the design
in passing it to have no entangling
matter connected with it but make it simply
high license law and then pass another
law providing forts enforcement. This law
is yet to be gotten through, and as there
are good many misgivings relative to the
new departure it looks as though it was
going to be harder to pass that law, than
the original high license law. Though this
bill was, with two others on the same sub
ject, the special order for to-day, the House
after a wrangle of some length, refused to
take them up. The Senate passed the rail
road bill, which was debated nearly all day
yesterday, this morning with only two mega
tive votes. The bill allows free passes There
was very spirited contest in the Senate
to-day over the bill transferring the Minneap-
oils & St Cloud land grant to the Duluth, st.
Cloud, Mankato & Southern railroad. The
argument made was that it was unconst1tu-
honal to make the transfer, but the Senate
did not see it in that light and recommend
ed the bill to pass by large majority. The
House worked very industriously, holding
three sessions and sitting until nearly mid
night Among the bills introduced last
sa5 was the general s sa b
vides for the expense of the State govern
ment for two years in view of there being
no Legislative session next year. The Cap
itol removal question continues to furnish
some amusement. Minneapolis started in
ion dollars; Duluth followed with an offer
of forty acres and two million and a half
dollars for building. ST. Paul came for
ward with bill authorizing the issue of
thirty year bonds for three million dollars
to build the capitol and now comes Sleepy
Eye with an offer of five hundred acres and
five million dollars. the five. million to in
clude to cover a one million dollar hotel.
There are probably several towns yet to be
heard from and as long as it costs but little
to get piece of paper on which to make q
proposition, it is likely that the offers will
time the wise citizens of st. Paul
and Minneapolis have appointed
committees, who have held joint meeting,
and come to the conclusion that there is no
occasion for removing the capitol after all,
but recommended that the present building
be repaired and the matter ended there for
the present. As that is exactly what the
Legislature had decided to do without any
of this outside advice, it would seem that
great deal OF unnecessary chin music has
been thrust upon the public ear on this SUBJ
that twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars
will be used in putting the present building
in safe condition. go